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COSS™

Children’s Organizational Skills Scale

"It effectively fills a gap in the area of organizational skills that is quite important to parents (Garn, Matthews, & Jolly, in press), but is only rarely quantified. As a measure based in clinical experience, the COSS will be useful to both researchers and practitioners.”

The COSS is designed to help the assessor understand how children organize their time, their materials, and their actions to accomplish important tasks at home and at school. The COSS quantifies organizational skills for children aged 8 to 13 based on ratings from parents, teachers, and the child.

How to Use the Assessment Rating scales are available in parent, teacher, and self-report form formats. The COSS scales include Task Planning, Organizes Actions, and Memory and Materials Management. An Inconsistency Index is available on all three forms. This index is useful for determining response patterns that can affect results due to careless/random responding.

The self-report form also contains a Positive Impression Index to help identify inaccurate representation of problems by making situations appear better than they really are. has a negative attitude toward the testing process. Back to the top